“And the prosecution knows pretty generally what we’ve found out and what lines we’re working on?”
“Yes.”
“What,” Drake asked, “are you going to do about it?”
“I’m going to ignore it,” Mason told him. “When you can’t prove anything, it’s foolish to get all worked up over it... Now here’s what I want, Paul, I want you to concentrate on this man, Diggers. It’s becoming exceedingly important to find out about that bag.”
“In the first place, I’m not so certain they can identify that bag as having belonged to Sarah Breel. In the second place, I don’t think the gun was in the bag. The gun was found lying on the pavement where it looked as though it had fallen from the bag, or had been knocked out of Mrs. Breel’s hand. I think when Diggers mentioned that the gun was in the bag, he wasn’t referring to the fact that he found the gun in the bag, but that he assumed it must have...”
“I’m afraid you’re barking up the wrong tree on that, Perry,” Drake told him.
“How so?” Mason asked.
“They’ve been working on Diggers themselves, and they have him sewed up. Did you see the papers tonight, Perry?”
“You mean the statement of the D.A. that Golding and Eva Tannis have both identified Sarah Breel as having been at the scene of the murder at the time it was committed?”
“Yes.”